He never yelled or screamed so I felt very at home and comfortable.
~By Margaret O'Brien ~
'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?
~By Charles Edwards ~
I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable.
~By Jesse Eisenberg ~
Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to put the lipstick on.'
~By Jennifer Lawrence ~
The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers.
~By Arianna Huffington ~
I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
~By Jim Morrison ~
I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.
~By F. Murray Abraham ~
Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.
~By Richard Russo ~
Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.
~By Mercedes Ruehl ~
I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.
~By Josh Lucas ~
There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
~By Washington Irving ~
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
~By Gerald R. Ford ~
Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.
~By Donna Karan ~
Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.
~By Andrea Bocelli ~
Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!
~By Derek Jacobi ~
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
~By Imelda Marcos ~
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
~By Robert Frost ~
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
~By George Orwell ~
Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point.
~By Josh Lucas ~
Extreme Makeover... they help people that are uncomfortable in their own skin. They really change lives.
~By Steven Hill ~
Look whether it be indifferently, as well for sins secret as open, what you find to be your best cordials to comfort you, whether God's Word, or natural means.
~By Thomas Hooker ~
I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.
~By Jewel Kilcher ~
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
~By Iris Chang ~
Every player has the option to have metal spikes or other spikes or whatever they feel most comfortable in.
~By Bernhard Langer ~
I think also there was a lot of coming to terms with where I am in life, where I fit in as a gay man in America, and getting more comfortable with who I am.
~By Bob Mould ~
If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
~By Bill Cosby ~
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
~By Alain de Botton ~
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky.
~By Candice Bergen ~
I feel fine and comfortable with myself, but not because I'm beautiful.
~By Monica Bellucci ~
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
~By Ivan Turgenev ~
The difference is that if we turn from the Gentile first, we will have the Almighty as the immediate staff and our comfort. If not, we will have neither the Gentile nor, for a terrible stage, the Almighty.
~By Meir Kahane ~
It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.
~By LaToya Jackson ~
Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.
~By Jacques Derrida ~
No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.
~By Shirley Manson ~
Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
~By Alexis Carrel ~
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
~By Mohammed Reza Pahlavi ~
I think the key to being a journalist is getting your subject to feel comfortable enough to talk about stuff they want to talk about and the stuff they like and don't like, and still feel comfortable about it.
~By Glenn Danzig ~
It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.
~By Bill Forsyth ~
I'm very comfortable in having a strong team. I'm very comfortable in sharing the limelight with the team.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay.
~By Herb Ritts ~
In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.
~By Robert Dale Owen ~
But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.
~By George Clooney ~
I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?
~By Liz Phair ~
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.
~By Barry Levinson ~
People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.
~By Mark Zuckerberg ~
Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it.
~By Philip Seymour Hoffman ~
There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.
~By Victoria Jackson ~
It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.
~By Richard H. Davis ~
By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.
~By Sidney Altman ~
So people have been hurting and I understand that. And it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me, we would be in a worldwide depression.
~By Harry Reid ~
I see it as one of my jobs to make sure that, it sounds ridiculous, but to make sure the folks are eating, make sure folks are getting enough fluids, make sure folks are, you know, comfortable in the orbiter.
~By Duane G. Carey ~
You want the audience to be uncomfortable.
~By Richard Thompson ~
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
~By Vincent D'Onofrio ~
I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.
~By Anna Quindlen ~
What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff.
~By Jimmy Chamberlin ~
A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.
~By Jean Kerr ~
I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.
~By Walter Hill ~
I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.
~By Ani DiFranco ~
We are all encouraged that Bush appears, really for the first time in his experience on the stage of presidential politics, relaxed. His comfort is our comfort.
~By John Dean ~
There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.
~By Carlisle Floyd ~
The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.
~By David Brainerd ~
So when we finally settled down outside of Seattle I felt totally uncomfortable with that idea.
~By Josh Lucas ~
I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are.
~By James Young ~
As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.
~By Christian Slater ~
I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I'm constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans and a lot of other artists say my songs and albums mean a lot to them. Isn't that what's important?
~By Lucinda Williams ~
The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!
~By Michael Flanders ~
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
~By Katherine Mansfield ~
A low budget is uncomfortable.
~By Lukas Haas ~
Shows can come and go. They can be a hit and then in three years, gone. There's some comfort in having the stability of a job and having children. It's a double-edged sword.
~By Calista Flockhart ~
Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.
~By Laura Dern ~
I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.
~By Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ~
All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.
~By Wes Craven ~
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.
~By Mercedes Ruehl ~
I could only try to comfort the women that I came face-to-face with. I was really moved by how much they wanted to talk, how much they needed to be comforted, and how happy they were that we were there.
~By Connie Sellecca ~
I love being onstage and I love to perform. To be honest with you, I'm more comfortable performing than I am in an everyday situation, which I can't quite explain.
~By Melanie Chisholm ~
Our studio is kind of built into our home, so it's a place you can ramble, and we can do a pretty good recording here. The band is really comfortable her.
~By Chris Frantz ~
Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities.
~By Thomas Perry ~
I think you always hope you can play forever, but you always realize that time will come... I was fortunate I was able to make a decision, move on and do it comfortably.
~By Ron Francis ~
It's getting better and better. You know, guys are feeling more comfortable and they are not afraid to speak up and be a leader. I mean, our team, we have 25 players, we have about 25 leaders, too. So whatever someone says, people listen.
~By Johnny Damon ~
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
~By Arnold Bennett ~
And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.
~By Eddie Albert ~
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
~By Confucius ~
It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably.
~By Carl Levin ~
Sex is... perfectly natural. It's something that's pleasurable. It's enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don't we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual?
~By Sue Johanson ~
These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
I've always been the only girl in those environments. It's comfortable for me - I prefer it, actually.
~By Lisa Guerrero ~
The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it.
~By Kiefer Sutherland ~
Most architects say: I want to use this type of glass, even if it's too reflective or doesn't let enough light in. However, the use of a certain type of glass might change the comfort level.
~By Helmut Jahn ~
It's so much harder to keep your clothes on than take them off in this business. Even in Exotica, they wanted more nudity, but I didn't feel comfortable.
~By Mia Kirshner ~
Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things.
~By John Jewel ~
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